Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott tomorrow will recommend $35 million in new spending on projects at Port Canaveral, Port Everglades and Port of Tampa. Scott is slated to announce the proposal during a speech at the American Association of Port Authority's annual convention in Orlando. The proposal will includde $9.7 milion for Port Canaveral to develop a container yard and $10.4 million for Port of Tampa to improve its container yard. Port Everglades, under the proposal, would receive $14.7 million to support the Turning Notch project, which would lengthen the existing deepwater turning area for cargo ships, allowing for up to five new cargo berths. Over the last t hree years, the...

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TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott tomorrow will recommend $35 million in new spending on projects at Port Canaveral, Port Everglades and Port of Tampa.
Scott is slated to announce the proposal during a speech at the American Association of Port...

TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Wednesday.
Here's what we're reading this morning.
* Orlando Sentinel writes that a new deal may pave the way for an Orlando-Miami train as well as a toll road in Osceola County that would open up...

Junk in...junk out.
Lee County Port Authority officers arrested Arnaldo Jose Santiago Burgos after he allegedly forced his way onto a plane, claiming he was an FBI informant who needed to get to Boston due to medical complications, reports WINK CBS...

Soraya Evette Billinge called the Lee County Port Authority police and told them she did not want her husband working late at night because she did not like being home alone, reports WBBH News-2 in Fort Myers.

Authorities went to Mark Stephen Preston's residence on Lazy D Farm Road in Estero to investigate the theft of fencing material from the county's Port Authority property, reports the Naples Daily News.Preston's truck was allegedly at the scene of the...

The 17-year-old Fort Myers teen is an honor student who has recently been accepted to several Ivy League colleges on scholarships, according to her mom.
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The only church destroyed by the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center will be rebuilt, more than a decade later.
Groundbreaking on a new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church took place over the weekend. Construction is expected to be completed...

NEW YORK — With next month's planned opening of One World Trade Center, the slow-moving, always-contentious reconstruction of the 16-acre site devastated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will take a major step forward. Here's a status report on the...

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NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the metropolitan area remains under threat of terrorist attack, and that commuters will see an increased security presence in the city and at transit points as a result.
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NEW YORK — A cross-shaped steel beam pulled from the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks can be displayed in the national memorial museum at the site, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.An...

Port Canaveral may have lost a Dream, but now it has some Sunshine.
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NEW YORK -- East Coast residents sick of a long, snowy winter reveled in warmer temperatures that reached 45 degrees in some areas -- until they realized the sky was falling.
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